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No. 11.)
THE BRAHMA-SIDDHANTA: TRUE, OR APPARENT, SYSTEM.
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TRANSLATION.
(Lines 1-4.) While the victorious reign of–hail !--the asylum of the whole world, favourite of Fortune and Earth, great Emperor, supreme Lord, supreme Master, ornament of Satyasraya's race, embellishment of the Chalukyas, king Traiļokyamalla, was advancing in a course of successively increasing prosperity, (to endure) as long as moon, son, and stars :
(Lines 4-9.) Hail ! she whose foot-lotuses are touched by the diadems of opponent kings, who is pure through bathing in the Ganges, a wishing-jewel to the distressed and master. less, uniform in speech, adorned with virtues, Akka-dēvi, in the camp around the fortress of Gökage, granted land for the expenses of) plastering the broken and burst (masonry) of the Gopada-bedangi Jina temple at Vikramapura, and for the supply of) scent, incense, and lampe, and for sarugi, and for the maintenance of Nāgasēna Pandita, (1 friar) of the Hogariya Gachchha of the Varasēna Gaņa of the Mala Sangha, and of the friars and nuns residing there and for the cloaks of the nuns :
(Lines 9-18.) The lands given by her) to the god, which she purchased of Dadigarasa, on Sunday, the new-moon day of Chaitra in the cyclic year Brrvvajit, the 989th (year) of the Saka era, on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun, with the performance of pouring of water, were : Gāpada Haļur, a town forming part of the Kisukādu Seventy, granted on sarva-namasya tenure, in its entirety, with usufruct of the citizens (?); one mattar of garden on the north-east of Vikramapura ; south of the town, on the south-west of the Muruvadu Waste-land, twelve mattar on sarva-namasya tenure for Pandita Nāgadēva ; to the south thereof, twenty-four mattar on sarva-namasya tenure for the drummer Kētoja ; north of the town, east of Rayagatte, one mattar of garden for the drummer Kētāja; on the west thereof twelve mattar on sarva-namasya tenure (and) one mattar of garden for the stone-mason Sūroja; (furthermore,) 50 mattar on sarva-namasya tenure in the estate of the seigniory south of the Kappadi tank,
(Lines 19-21 : a prose formula of the usual type.) (Line 22: the beginning of a common Sanskrit verse.)
No. 11.-THE BRAHMA-SIDDHANTA OF BRAHMAGUPTA (A.D. 628).
WORKING TABLES FOR COMPUTATION OF ANCIENT DATES BY THE TRUE, OR APPARENT, MOTIONS
OF SUN AND MOON.
BY ROBERT SEWELL (I.C.S., RETIRED).
A continuation of the author's "Indian Chronography." 311. In pars. 257 of my article on "The true longitude of the sun in Hindu astronomy, the Siddhānta-Siromani" (above, Vol. XIV, p. 241), and again in a later article on The Siddhanta. Siromani, $ 2711(Vol. XV, pp. 159 sqq.), I discussed the question of the values assigned in the seventh century A.D. by Brahmagupta to the twenty-four base-sines of angles in the quadrant; and expressed the opinion that when, but not until, definite assurance was obtainable that the values stated in the only available copies of the Brahma-Siddhanta were really those fixed by its author, working Tables framed according to its postulates might safely be prepared for the computation of ancient dates.
This term occurs elsewhere, e.g. in Ep. Carn. II (Sravana Belgola), No. 56, p. 62. * Literally, "one."
One MS. copy in the India Office, London, and Benaros printed edition.
